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Include me on the list as soon as i get my own fic up... been lacking ideas for Korean Peninsula Later January 1998

Yay!

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Originally Posted by SolarAquarion

He wakes up in a abandoned house and one of the first things he hears is a rendition of a song by Sheryl nome?

Not really sure if he'd know who Sheryl Nome is, given that he's from 2001 and Macross Frontier only aired in 2008... Anyway, bottom line: don't expect Takeru to show up in the main story.

Also, here's the first 'news article' I wrote up.

Spoiler for ML: DYRL News Snippet 1:

Yokohama Hostage Situation Reaches Explosive Conclusion!

Global News Network, 31 Jan 2002, Alberte Genetti reporting

The hostage situation in Yokohama Base, Japan reached a tragic conclusion today despite the best efforts of the Imperial Royal Guards' 16th Guard Battalion and the US Army's 66th Tactical Armored Battalion when the hostage takers chose to take their own lives and the lives of one of their captives.

Three days ago, the current headquarters of the 11th UN Army became the scene of a shocking standoff. Three UN officers stole two UN Type-94 Shiranuis and took the entire base hostage after seizing control of its recently installed automated defenses with a high tech computer virus. These three officers, 1st Lieutenant Mitsuki Hayase, 1st Lieutenant Haruka Suzumiya and 2nd Lieutenant Akane Suzumiya are all believed to have ties to the terrorist organization Refugee Liberation Front.

Although they trio had planned and executed their plan almost flawlessly, it was only by the timely intervention of Captain Michiru Isumi that saved the lives of the 5000 base personnel. Captain Isumi, now hailed as a national hero, sacrificed her own life to ensure that the majority of the base's personnel were evacuated safely before full control of the base fell into the terrorists' hands. However, the terrorists were able to capture several hostages including UN 11th Army vice commander Yuuko Kouzuki and the entirety of 207th UN Training Unit, among whose cadets are several relatives of prominent members of both Imperial Japan and the UN Security Council.

With the base fully under the terrorists' control, Yokohama and the area around the base became a strict no-fly zone. The standoff lasted for three days, during which negotiators and local law enforcement worked relentlessly to ensure the safe return of the hostages. Despite the best efforts by many of the UN's best hostage negotiators, the situation remained at a standstill until the US Army's 66th TAB "Hunter", under Major Alfred Walken, launched an assault on the base using state of the art F-22A Raptor TSFs to defeat the base's defenses.

After fifteen minutes of grueling fighting, the Hunter Battalion was able to secure all but one of the hostages and forced the terrorists to retreat deep into the main HQ building with Vice Commander Kouzuki. It was then, deciding to take their own lives rather than be captured, that the trio armed a S11 bomb. Thankfully, the Hunter Battalion was able to evacuate the base before the bomb detonated, although they were unable to rescue Professor Kouzuki.

Although the death toll stands only at five out of thousands, the price for defeating the terrorists has been heavy.

With their regional headquarters destroyed and one of their senior command staff having been a casualty, the UN Army is currently reorganizing itself in Hawaii. The US has also come under fire for their handling of the situation by elements of the Japanese Government, who they claim were preventing the on scene IRG unit from intervening in favor of the 66th Hunter Battalion. There is no evidence to refute or support this claim. The UN Army, in cooperation with the various regional powers, is leading a global manhunt of surviving RLF cells.

Michiru Isumi has been posthumously promoted to the rank of Major and awarded the Order of the Golden Kite 1st Class, the highest military award of valor by Imperial Japan. A public funeral for her and vice commander Professor Yuuko Kouzuki, lauded as one of the most brilliant members of the scientific community, will be held in a week's time in the Imperial Capital of Tokyo.

Opinions on the aftermath of the Yokohama Hostage Crisis

"I was as shocked as anyone else. We developed those automated droids to be used as our last line of defense against the BETA. I never thought anyone would be horrible enough to pervert that into something that could do this. Those defences were meant to save lives, not end them." - Captain Yui Takamura, Project Valkyrie Director.

"That the RLF would turn automated defenses against the very thing they were meant to protect shows that we have been talking these separatist groups far too lightly. These monsters are not human, not anymore. Humanity must deal with them, swiftly and concisely. We must deal with them now." - US Secretary of Defense David Anderson

"They caught us completely flat footed. If it wasn't for Captain Isumi, I don't know how we'd have gotten away. She laid down her life without even a second thought. She deserves that medal and I'll never forget what she did for all of us. As for that traitor? Wherever Hayase is right now, I hope she's getting her just deserts." - 1st Lieutenant Misae Munakata, UN Army

"The terrorists were out of their minds, and their demands were completely unreasonable. They wanted us to deliver them 'the Messiah'. I'm a human being! How am I supposed to deliver them the Second Coming? I knew they were fanatics, but goddamn, we never had a chance!" - 1st Lieutenant Pierce Wright, UN Negotiator

"We're lucky to be alive. That's all I have to say." - Cadet Kei Ayamine, 207th Training Group

"If the Imperial Royal Guard had been allowed to deploy just like I had repeatedly asked, I guarantee we would have been able to save Yokohama Base and Vice Commander Kouzuki. Those Americans mishandled the situation completely, and cost us not just the base but one of the most brilliant minds humanity has ever known. That we were held back despite having been ready to execute our own plan days before the Americans even arrived is pure lunacy!" - 1st Lieutenant Mana Tsukuyomi, Imperial Royal Guard

"Man, sure puts a dampener on the party, doesn't it? And here I thought us retaking Lyons was a good sign. One step forward, one step back." - 1st Lieutenant Ilfriede von Feulner, German Army

"I have a feeling there was more to this than what we... what I saw. Mitsuki-san couldn't have been a traitor. She... wasn't that type of person. I know she wasn't. Someone... Someone needs to get to the bottom of this." - Cadet Meiya Mitsurugi, 207th Training Group

Not really sure if he'd know who Sheryl Nome is, given that he's from 2001 and Macross Frontier only aired in 2008... Anyway, bottom line: don't expect Takeru to show up in the main story.

Also, here's the first 'news article' I wrote up.

Spoiler for ML: DYRL News Snippet 1:

Yokohama Hostage Situation Reaches Explosive Conclusion!

Global News Network, 31 Jan 2002, Alberte Genetti reporting

The hostage situation in Yokohama Base, Japan reached a tragic conclusion today despite the best efforts of the Imperial Royal Guards' 16th Guard Battalion and the US Army's 66th Tactical Armored Battalion when the hostage takers chose to take their own lives and the lives of one of their captives.

Three days ago, the current headquarters of the 11th UN Army became the scene of a shocking standoff. Three UN officers stole two UN Type-94 Shiranuis and took the entire base hostage after seizing control of its recently installed automated defenses with a high tech computer virus. These three officers, 1st Lieutenant Mitsuki Hayase, 1st Lieutenant Haruka Suzumiya and 2nd Lieutenant Akane Suzumiya are all believed to have ties to the terrorist organization Refugee Liberation Front.

Although they trio had planned and executed their plan almost flawlessly, it was only by the timely intervention of Captain Michiru Isumi that saved the lives of the 5000 base personnel. Captain Isumi, now hailed as a national hero, sacrificed her own life to ensure that the majority of the base's personnel were evacuated safely before full control of the base fell into the terrorists' hands. However, the terrorists were able to capture several hostages including UN 11th Army vice commander Yuuko Kouzuki and the entirety of 207th UN Training Unit, among whose cadets are several relatives of prominent members of both Imperial Japan and the UN Security Council.

With the base fully under the terrorists' control, Yokohama and the area around the base became a strict no-fly zone. The standoff lasted for three days, during which negotiators and local law enforcement worked relentlessly to ensure the safe return of the hostages. Despite the best efforts by many of the UN's best hostage negotiators, the situation remained at a standstill until the US Army's 66th TAB "Hunter", under Major Alfred Walken, launched an assault on the base using state of the art F-22A Raptor TSFs to defeat the base's defenses.

After fifteen minutes of grueling fighting, the Hunter Battalion was able to secure all but one of the hostages and forced the terrorists to retreat deep into the main HQ building with Vice Commander Kouzuki. It was then, deciding to take their own lives rather than be captured, that the trio armed a S11 bomb. Thankfully, the Hunter Battalion was able to evacuate the base before the bomb detonated, although they were unable to rescue Professor Kouzuki.

Although the death toll stands only at five out of thousands, the price for defeating the terrorists has been heavy.

With their regional headquarters destroyed and one of their senior command staff having been a casualty, the UN Army is currently reorganizing itself in Hawaii. The US has also come under fire for their handling of the situation by elements of the Japanese Government, who they claim were preventing the on scene IRG unit from intervening in favor of the 66th Hunter Battalion. There is no evidence to refute or support this claim. The UN Army, in cooperation with the various regional powers, is leading a global manhunt of surviving RLF cells.

Michiru Isumi has been posthumously promoted to the rank of Major and awarded the Order of the Golden Kite 1st Class, the highest military award of valor by Imperial Japan. A public funeral for her and vice commander Professor Yuuko Kouzuki, lauded as one of the most brilliant members of the scientific community, will be held in a week's time in the Imperial Capital of Tokyo.

Opinions on the aftermath of the Yokohama Hostage Crisis

"I was as shocked as anyone else. We developed those automated droids to be used as our last line of defense against the BETA. I never thought anyone would be horrible enough to pervert that into something that could do this. Those defences were meant to save lives, not end them." - Captain Yui Takamura, Project Valkyrie Director.

"That the RLF would turn automated defenses against the very thing they were meant to protect shows that we have been talking these separatist groups far too lightly. These monsters are not human, not anymore. Humanity must deal with them, swiftly and concisely. We must deal with them now." - US Secretary of Defense David Anderson

"They caught us completely flat footed. If it wasn't for Captain Isumi, I don't know how we'd have gotten away. She laid down her life without even a second thought. She deserves that medal and I'll never forget what she did for all of us. As for that traitor? Wherever Hayase is right now, I hope she's getting her just deserts." - 1st Lieutenant Misae Munakata, UN Army

"The terrorists were out of their minds, and their demands were completely unreasonable. They wanted us to deliver them 'the Messiah'. I'm a human being! How am I supposed to deliver them the Second Coming? I knew they were fanatics, but goddamn, we never had a chance!" - 1st Lieutenant Pierce Wright, UN Negotiator

"We're lucky to be alive. That's all I have to say." - Cadet Kei Ayamine, 207th Training Group

"If the Imperial Royal Guard had been allowed to deploy just like I had repeatedly asked, I guarantee we would have been able to save Yokohama Base and Vice Commander Kouzuki. Those Americans mishandled the situation completely, and cost us not just the base but one of the most brilliant minds humanity has ever known. That we were held back despite having been ready to execute our own plan days before the Americans even arrived is pure lunacy!" - 1st Lieutenant Mana Tsukuyomi, Imperial Royal Guard

"Man, sure puts a dampener on the party, doesn't it? And here I thought us retaking Lyons was a good sign. One step forward, one step back." - 1st Lieutenant Ilfriede von Feulner, German Army

"I have a feeling there was more to this than what we... what I saw. Mitsuki-san couldn't have been a traitor. She... wasn't that type of person. I know she wasn't. Someone... Someone needs to get to the bottom of this." - Cadet Meiya Mitsurugi, 207th Training Group

now how would IRG/UN/US/Russia/EU would react to bullet deflection using PB Blade... hahahahah

Not really sure if he'd know who Sheryl Nome is, given that he's from 2001 and Macross Frontier only aired in 2008... Anyway, bottom line: don't expect Takeru to show up in the main story.

Also, here's the first 'news article' I wrote up.

Spoiler for ML: DYRL News Snippet 1:

Yokohama Hostage Situation Reaches Explosive Conclusion!

Global News Network, 31 Jan 2002, Alberte Genetti reporting

The hostage situation in Yokohama Base, Japan reached a tragic conclusion today despite the best efforts of the Imperial Royal Guards' 16th Guard Battalion and the US Army's 66th Tactical Armored Battalion when the hostage takers chose to take their own lives and the lives of one of their captives.

Three days ago, the current headquarters of the 11th UN Army became the scene of a shocking standoff. Three UN officers stole two UN Type-94 Shiranuis and took the entire base hostage after seizing control of its recently installed automated defenses with a high tech computer virus. These three officers, 1st Lieutenant Mitsuki Hayase, 1st Lieutenant Haruka Suzumiya and 2nd Lieutenant Akane Suzumiya are all believed to have ties to the terrorist organization Refugee Liberation Front.

Although they trio had planned and executed their plan almost flawlessly, it was only by the timely intervention of Captain Michiru Isumi that saved the lives of the 5000 base personnel. Captain Isumi, now hailed as a national hero, sacrificed her own life to ensure that the majority of the base's personnel were evacuated safely before full control of the base fell into the terrorists' hands. However, the terrorists were able to capture several hostages including UN 11th Army vice commander Yuuko Kouzuki and the entirety of 207th UN Training Unit, among whose cadets are several relatives of prominent members of both Imperial Japan and the UN Security Council.

With the base fully under the terrorists' control, Yokohama and the area around the base became a strict no-fly zone. The standoff lasted for three days, during which negotiators and local law enforcement worked relentlessly to ensure the safe return of the hostages. Despite the best efforts by many of the UN's best hostage negotiators, the situation remained at a standstill until the US Army's 66th TAB "Hunter", under Major Alfred Walken, launched an assault on the base using state of the art F-22A Raptor TSFs to defeat the base's defenses.

After fifteen minutes of grueling fighting, the Hunter Battalion was able to secure all but one of the hostages and forced the terrorists to retreat deep into the main HQ building with Vice Commander Kouzuki. It was then, deciding to take their own lives rather than be captured, that the trio armed a S11 bomb. Thankfully, the Hunter Battalion was able to evacuate the base before the bomb detonated, although they were unable to rescue Professor Kouzuki.

Although the death toll stands only at five out of thousands, the price for defeating the terrorists has been heavy.

With their regional headquarters destroyed and one of their senior command staff having been a casualty, the UN Army is currently reorganizing itself in Hawaii. The US has also come under fire for their handling of the situation by elements of the Japanese Government, who they claim were preventing the on scene IRG unit from intervening in favor of the 66th Hunter Battalion. There is no evidence to refute or support this claim. The UN Army, in cooperation with the various regional powers, is leading a global manhunt of surviving RLF cells.

Michiru Isumi has been posthumously promoted to the rank of Major and awarded the Order of the Golden Kite 1st Class, the highest military award of valor by Imperial Japan. A public funeral for her and vice commander Professor Yuuko Kouzuki, lauded as one of the most brilliant members of the scientific community, will be held in a week's time in the Imperial Capital of Tokyo.

Opinions on the aftermath of the Yokohama Hostage Crisis

"I was as shocked as anyone else. We developed those automated droids to be used as our last line of defense against the BETA. I never thought anyone would be horrible enough to pervert that into something that could do this. Those defences were meant to save lives, not end them." - Captain Yui Takamura, Project Valkyrie Director.

"That the RLF would turn automated defenses against the very thing they were meant to protect shows that we have been talking these separatist groups far too lightly. These monsters are not human, not anymore. Humanity must deal with them, swiftly and concisely. We must deal with them now." - US Secretary of Defense David Anderson

"They caught us completely flat footed. If it wasn't for Captain Isumi, I don't know how we'd have gotten away. She laid down her life without even a second thought. She deserves that medal and I'll never forget what she did for all of us. As for that traitor? Wherever Hayase is right now, I hope she's getting her just deserts." - 1st Lieutenant Misae Munakata, UN Army

"The terrorists were out of their minds, and their demands were completely unreasonable. They wanted us to deliver them 'the Messiah'. I'm a human being! How am I supposed to deliver them the Second Coming? I knew they were fanatics, but goddamn, we never had a chance!" - 1st Lieutenant Pierce Wright, UN Negotiator

"We're lucky to be alive. That's all I have to say." - Cadet Kei Ayamine, 207th Training Group

"If the Imperial Royal Guard had been allowed to deploy just like I had repeatedly asked, I guarantee we would have been able to save Yokohama Base and Vice Commander Kouzuki. Those Americans mishandled the situation completely, and cost us not just the base but one of the most brilliant minds humanity has ever known. That we were held back despite having been ready to execute our own plan days before the Americans even arrived is pure lunacy!" - 1st Lieutenant Mana Tsukuyomi, Imperial Royal Guard

"Man, sure puts a dampener on the party, doesn't it? And here I thought us retaking Lyons was a good sign. One step forward, one step back." - 1st Lieutenant Ilfriede von Feulner, German Army

"I have a feeling there was more to this than what we... what I saw. Mitsuki-san couldn't have been a traitor. She... wasn't that type of person. I know she wasn't. Someone... Someone needs to get to the bottom of this." - Cadet Meiya Mitsurugi, 207th Training Group

Interesting.

Spoiler for Thoughts and speculations:

So 3 of the A-01 Valkyries goes rogue, takes over Yokohama Base, claims themselves as RLF/ Allegiance members but not before blowing themselves up including their boss Yuuko, the only Valkyrie who didn't join them and the staff employed there. And Yuuhi is somehow dead and Ikaruga has taken over Japan as regent while the IRG has made their own VTFs.

I smell a conspiracy! The A-01 would never join terrorists like the RLF so this whole hostage thing in Yokohama was probably a ploy by Yuuko to make the world believe they're dead so that Yuuko, the A-01s and the Yokohama staff can be somewhere to do their plans undisturbed. Maybe somewhere unknown or possibly the Macross universe.

I also doubt Yuuhi is dead since her bodyguard and adviser is Female Shriogane.

PS: Since TE visual novel revealed Mother Russia survived Kamchatka, will she be making an appearance in MuvLuv: DYRL?

So 3 of the A-01 Valkyries goes rogue, takes over Yokohama Base, claims themselves as RLF/ Allegiance members but not before blowing themselves up including their boss Yuuko, the only Valkyrie who didn't join them and the staff employed there. And Yuuhi is somehow dead and Ikaruga has taken over Japan as regent while the IRG has made their own VTFs.

I smell a conspiracy! The A-01 would never join terrorists like the RLF so this whole hostage thing in Yokohama was probably a ploy by Yuuko to make the world believe they're dead so that Yuuko, the A-01s and the Yokohama staff can be somewhere to do their plans undisturbed. Maybe somewhere unknown or possibly the Macross universe.

I also doubt Yuuhi is dead since her bodyguard and adviser is Female Shriogane.

PS: Since TE visual novel revealed Mother Russia survived Kamchatka, will she be making an appearance in MuvLuv: DYRL?

Maybe the trusted adviser kicked the bucket first...

But leaving the conspiracy theories aside for a moment (), I have to say this is a good fic.

The only thing that I'm having a hard time swallowing is the time-frame. Too many changes happened too fast, making everything seem implausible. And I'm not just talking about the characters' lives and personalities, but the very setting as well - if I got this right, the Valkyries were introduced roughly about 2 years ago, and in that short space of time they not only became mainstream all over the world but also started to replace the TSF in just about everything (). That is not something you would see happening in at least half a decade.

I'll try and get the replies out of the way since I have something more important I want to publish here. I'll refrain on confirming or denying too much becuase since speculation from the readers makes me smile, but there are a few things I can say without spoiling too much.

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Originally Posted by MrTerrorist

Spoiler for Thoughts and speculations:

PS: Since TE visual novel revealed Mother Russia survived Kamchatka, will she be making an appearance in MuvLuv: DYRL?

Sorry to say, for the sake of Nastassja's story arc she's dead as a doornail. Sorry to all her fans!

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Originally Posted by faiz blaster

The only thing that I'm having a hard time swallowing is the time-frame. Too many changes happened too fast, making everything seem implausible.

Yeah, I can see your point. It was a major problem for me during the planning stages because there is a deadline the characters have to beat (February 23, 2004), and everything I want to have happen is going to have to get crammed that timeframe.

Hopefully I can give some good explanations to some of the changers later.

Anyway, this is what I want to show you. It's a teaser for another fic I have in the works (alongside a sorta Yukikaze-TotalEclipse crossover that is at 1000 words). I'm just throwing it out there to see what people think of the concept.

Spoiler for Dear Yuuya...:

“Dear Yuuya,”

“I hope you never have to read this letter. If you do, it means that for whatever reason, I will have failed to return to you and Mira in person. It is a situation I will try my hardest to avoid. I can’t express to you how happy I am to learn that I have a son…”

Yui paused in her reading, as she tried very hard to control her emotions. Her hands trembled as she tried to keep the page steady, and she blinked and tried to focus on the English words on the page; words bearing familiar, yet alien handwriting. Even though she was sitting on a simple foldout chair, Yui nevertheless felt lifeless. Had she been standing, she was sure she collapse in a boneless heap.

This was harder than she thought it would be.

It took her a while before she could gather the will to continue.

“I was not supposed to have known about you, I think. Your mother wouldn’t have told me anyway, knowing her. Knowing you are alive might caused me to rethink, to lose my resolve, question my own decision to return to Japan. She even went as far to go into hiding from my family’s political enemies, all just to hide you. But I do know about you, and for that I owe Yoroi Sakon a debt I can never repay.”

Yui paused, committing the name to memory. She would have to ask her uncle about who this ‘Yoroi Sakon’ was, and if he had survived the war. If Yoroi had really told her father about Yuuya, then her family truly was indebted to this man.

Then she realized she’d stopped again, and quickly resumed her reading.

“No matter what people tell you, I never wanted to leave you and your mother. In fact, I never wanted to leave America in the first place. If I could, I would fly back there now just so I could see you with my own two eyes, and to hell with all my responsibilities… here…?”

Yui blinked in confusion, then reread that last few words. Still there.

Well this was a side of her father she certainly wasn’t aware about.

“…Responsibilities here. I only just got here ten months ago, and now I find out about you. The fates have a wicked sense of humor indeed.”

“But I won’t.”

“As you know, Japan is in a state of war against the alien threat that is dead set on wiping out mankind. Already half the planet is in ruins, and they are at Japan’s doorstep. If they are not stopped by my generation, they will threaten yours, and that is a state of affairs I refuse to allow, moreso now that I know about you. Contrary to what some in the States believe, if the BETA are not stopped here it is only a matter of time until they cross the Pacific and threaten you, my family-”

Once again Yui stopped.

‘My family’. Two small words in English language. When taken together, they conveyed so much meaning with so few letters. Her father had thought of Yuuya and Mira as ‘his family’.

What did that mean for her and her mother?

Yui desperately searched through her memories for the answer. She had always recalled her father’s memory with affection and warmth, but now looking back there had always been this distance between them that she had never quite noticed. He was always at work, never being home and whenever he was with them there was always an air of formality about him. It was as if there was this invisible barrier between them she had never wanted to acknowledge was there.

Yui had always taken it to be part of his personality, but what if…

Shanking herself from her melancholy before she became lost in it, Yui reminded herself she still had a task to perform.

“Now that I know I have a son, I cannot allow the BETA to continue as they are. Things out here are even worse than I had heard. There are places children have been sent into battle. I don’t want to see that happen to you. I want my child-”

Child as in singular? Did he not consider her his child? No, she wasn’t born yet. Yui took another deep breath and continued.

“I want my child to grow up without having to experience the things my generation has seen. For that to happen, I have to be here, where I can make a difference. Even if it means that I can never see you grow up, that will be a small price to pay to make sure that you have a long and healthy life, away from all of this. For that, I will lick the boots of my parents and these ‘noble houses’. If only so I can better protect you and Mira from the horrors of war, I will be whatever they want me to be.”

“Maybe I can convince my parents to accept Mira as my lawful wife, and then I will be able to see you on occasion. I doubt it though, given that they are already trying to figure out what sort of political marriage-”

Yui swallowed. She’d been aware that the union between her parents had been political in nature, but she’d always believed there had been an undercurrent of true love below that.

The way he father had just spat out those words pretty much did away with that idea.

“…political marriage would be most beneficial for me. Besides, America is a much better environment for you to grow up in, so maybe I should keep you my little secret for now, much like what Mira is doing. Our little secret. Has a nice ring to it. She always knew best.”

Yui paused, wondering if her father had any close how troubled Yuuya’s childhood would be at this stage in his life. Knowing what she did, Yui knew the hopeful sentiment of her father was completely unfounded, and calling Yuuya’s childhood turbulent was a gross understatement.

Well, she would find out eventually.

All she had to do was keep reading.

“It is still early though, and my mind is a complete mess. I only just learned about you, so I haven’t had time to really process the fact I have a son yet. I don’t even know if I should tell anyone about this! All I know for certain is that I am overjoyed, that I can’t wait to see you with my own eyes, and that as long as my body draws breadth I will never allow you to come to harm.”

“ I hope that in the event that the only way you ever hear my words, thoughts and feelings is through this letter, know this: I love you, Yuuya. Never forget this.”

“Your loving father,”

“Tadamasa Takamura.”

The fact that her father deliberately put his given name before his family name, as was the Western way, was not lost on Yui.

Finished with her reading of the letter, Yui folded the document neatly and carefully put it back into the small, worn envelope she had found it in. Then, she placed it into a small inconspicuous brown box that was on her lap. The box was full of envelopes, full of letters, all written by her father. They were all of different sizes and lengths, and the dates were all different, starting from this one all the way to just a few days before her father’s death.

A decades worth of letters of a father to the son he had never known.

“You father did love you after all, Yuuya,” Yui whispered sadly. “All this time, he actually knew about you. All this time… he loved you.”

Yuuya did not reply.

“Yuuya, one of my house servants found these yesterday when they were reorganizing my father’s study for my use. I swore her to secrecy once I realized what was in it,” Yui informed her older half-brother, unable to raise her eyes from where they were fixed on the box on her lap. “It was well hidden, it was a miracle that it survived for all these years. I guess it was fate that father’s words would reach you.”

Yui looked up, tears welling in the corners of her eyes.

“Please let them reach you.”

Lying comatose on the hospital bed before her, paying a heavy price for his heroic actions in Operation Ouka nearly two years ago, the unconscious form of Yuuya Bridges could not give her a reply.

-=-

“Dear Yuuya…”

A Muv Luv Alternative Total Eclipse fanfic (teaser) by Sasahara17

It's a girl reading letters to her comatose older-half brother while getting run over by the trauma train, repeatedly, while trying to come to grips with the fact she has unresolved 'issues' with him.

Like it, hate it, please let me know what you think. If the reception is good, I might consider turning it into a full length fic (won't be too long though).

I don't usually make comments about other people's writing (because ultimately, my opinions are biased and subjective, and I don't really think like fixing that problem unless being locked in a formal debate...), but I have to say, that's bloody well written.

I could have seen the sparkles of love in DYRL. Even if I don't watch Macross.

Spoiler for AMT~kun's dreadful prediction corner time:

Now, what I think happened in Yokohama:

Option A, standard Ikaruga swag. He either framed, or riled some Valkyries into tearing up the place, then manipulated Japanese government into delaying 16th Guards entry, to then use the U.N/American "failure" as a propaganda piece, while keeping his hands clean.

Option B: Valkyries, at least some of them, really didgo rouge. Perhaps they truly believed that Alt. IV would have been better. Perhaps, they thought that their "Messiah" would make their lives better -if you think about, being in A-01 is a really shitty job. Or perhaps, Yuuko became desperate to stop Alt. IV from being canned, only for her attempt to go awry, and both her and the people under her immediate command dying.

Option C: Alt. IV was "terminated" by U.N itself. Some Valkyries were in on it (Misae). Few resisted, and were killed for it. Isumi might have been made into a hero in same way that Zhar was. Yuuko on the other hand, was killed because she knows too much, and can screw too many things up; perhaps U.N and Ikaruga even worked together on this.

And now, I have to put in Goose and Sasahar into Comet. Hope you guys like genderswaps~

__________________

Let the world fear us all.
It's just means to an end.
Our salvation lies in the Father's sins.

Valkyries were introduced roughly about 2 years ago, and in that short space of time they not only became mainstream all over the world but also started to replace the TSF in just about everything

Oops. It was never my intention that Valkyries completely replace TSFs in everything. In fact, VTFs had problems with fighting BETA becuase they run out of ammo quicker than a TSF (hence my air v armor comparison). Humanity can only win if everything works together.

I'll have to put more focus on the F-35 and the F-18 in the next JH to make up for this. Big Oops.

Oh yeah, just to clarify: The Shinden II that the Japs have is a TSF, not a Valkyrie. The IRG don't do Vallkyries.

Erm, don't forget to give feedback and comments on "Dear Yuuya..." in my post above. I will give presents (not)!

I'll try and get the replies out of the way since I have something more important I want to publish here. I'll refrain on confirming or denying too much becuase since speculation from the readers makes me smile, but there are a few things I can say without spoiling too much.

Sorry to say, for the sake of Nastassja's story arc she's dead as a doornail. Sorry to all her fans!

Yeah, I can see your point. It was a major problem for me during the planning stages because there is a deadline the characters have to beat (February 23, 2004), and everything I want to have happen is going to have to get crammed that timeframe.

Hopefully I can give some good explanations to some of the changers later.

Anyway, this is what I want to show you. It's a teaser for another fic I have in the works (alongside a sorta Yukikaze-TotalEclipse crossover that is at 1000 words). I'm just throwing it out there to see what people think of the concept.

Spoiler for Dear Yuuya...:

“Dear Yuuya,”

“I hope you never have to read this letter. If you do, it means that for whatever reason, I will have failed to return to you and Mira in person. It is a situation I will try my hardest to avoid. I can’t express to you how happy I am to learn that I have a son…”

Yui paused in her reading, as she tried very hard to control her emotions. Her hands trembled as she tried to keep the page steady, and she blinked and tried to focus on the English words on the page; words bearing familiar, yet alien handwriting. Even though she was sitting on a simple foldout chair, Yui nevertheless felt lifeless. Had she been standing, she was sure she collapse in a boneless heap.

This was harder than she thought it would be.

It took her a while before she could gather the will to continue.

“I was not supposed to have known about you, I think. Your mother wouldn’t have told me anyway, knowing her. Knowing you are alive might caused me to rethink, to lose my resolve, question my own decision to return to Japan. She even went as far to go into hiding from my family’s political enemies, all just to hide you. But I do know about you, and for that I owe Yoroi Sakon a debt I can never repay.”

Yui paused, committing the name to memory. She would have to ask her uncle about who this ‘Yoroi Sakon’ was, and if he had survived the war. If Yoroi had really told her father about Yuuya, then her family truly was indebted to this man.

Then she realized she’d stopped again, and quickly resumed her reading.

“No matter what people tell you, I never wanted to leave you and your mother. In fact, I never wanted to leave America in the first place. If I could, I would fly back there now just so I could see you with my own two eyes, and to hell with all my responsibilities… here…?”

Yui blinked in confusion, then reread that last few words. Still there.

Well this was a side of her father she certainly wasn’t aware about.

“…Responsibilities here. I only just got here ten months ago, and now I find out about you. The fates have a wicked sense of humor indeed.”

“But I won’t.”

“As you know, Japan is in a state of war against the alien threat that is dead set on wiping out mankind. Already half the planet is in ruins, and they are at Japan’s doorstep. If they are not stopped by my generation, they will threaten yours, and that is a state of affairs I refuse to allow, moreso now that I know about you. Contrary to what some in the States believe, if the BETA are not stopped here it is only a matter of time until they cross the Pacific and threaten you, my family-”

Once again Yui stopped.

‘My family’. Two small words in English language. When taken together, they conveyed so much meaning with so few letters. Her father had thought of Yuuya and Mira as ‘his family’.

What did that mean for her and her mother?

Yui desperately searched through her memories for the answer. She had always recalled her father’s memory with affection and warmth, but now looking back there had always been this distance between them that she had never quite noticed. He was always at work, never being home and whenever he was with them there was always an air of formality about him. It was as if there was this invisible barrier between them she had never wanted to acknowledge was there.

Yui had always taken it to be part of his personality, but what if…

Shanking herself from her melancholy before she became lost in it, Yui reminded herself she still had a task to perform.

“Now that I know I have a son, I cannot allow the BETA to continue as they are. Things out here are even worse than I had heard. There are places children have been sent into battle. I don’t want to see that happen to you. I want my child-”

Child as in singular? Did he not consider her his child? No, she wasn’t born yet. Yui took another deep breath and continued.

“I want my child to grow up without having to experience the things my generation has seen. For that to happen, I have to be here, where I can make a difference. Even if it means that I can never see you grow up, that will be a small price to pay to make sure that you have a long and healthy life, away from all of this. For that, I will lick the boots of my parents and these ‘noble houses’. If only so I can better protect you and Mira from the horrors of war, I will be whatever they want me to be.”

“Maybe I can convince my parents to accept Mira as my lawful wife, and then I will be able to see you on occasion. I doubt it though, given that they are already trying to figure out what sort of political marriage-”

Yui swallowed. She’d been aware that the union between her parents had been political in nature, but she’d always believed there had been an undercurrent of true love below that.

The way he father had just spat out those words pretty much did away with that idea.

“…political marriage would be most beneficial for me. Besides, America is a much better environment for you to grow up in, so maybe I should keep you my little secret for now, much like what Mira is doing. Our little secret. Has a nice ring to it. She always knew best.”

Yui paused, wondering if her father had any close how troubled Yuuya’s childhood would be at this stage in his life. Knowing what she did, Yui knew the hopeful sentiment of her father was completely unfounded, and calling Yuuya’s childhood turbulent was a gross understatement.

Well, she would find out eventually.

All she had to do was keep reading.

“It is still early though, and my mind is a complete mess. I only just learned about you, so I haven’t had time to really process the fact I have a son yet. I don’t even know if I should tell anyone about this! All I know for certain is that I am overjoyed, that I can’t wait to see you with my own eyes, and that as long as my body draws breadth I will never allow you to come to harm.”

“ I hope that in the event that the only way you ever hear my words, thoughts and feelings is through this letter, know this: I love you, Yuuya. Never forget this.”

“Your loving father,”

“Tadamasa Takamura.”

The fact that her father deliberately put his given name before his family name, as was the Western way, was not lost on Yui.

Finished with her reading of the letter, Yui folded the document neatly and carefully put it back into the small, worn envelope she had found it in. Then, she placed it into a small inconspicuous brown box that was on her lap. The box was full of envelopes, full of letters, all written by her father. They were all of different sizes and lengths, and the dates were all different, starting from this one all the way to just a few days before her father’s death.

A decades worth of letters of a father to the son he had never known.

“You father did love you after all, Yuuya,” Yui whispered sadly. “All this time, he actually knew about you. All this time… he loved you.”

Yuuya did not reply.

“Yuuya, one of my house servants found these yesterday when they were reorganizing my father’s study for my use. I swore her to secrecy once I realized what was in it,” Yui informed her older half-brother, unable to raise her eyes from where they were fixed on the box on her lap. “It was well hidden, it was a miracle that it survived for all these years. I guess it was fate that father’s words would reach you.”

Yui looked up, tears welling in the corners of her eyes.

“Please let them reach you.”

Lying comatose on the hospital bed before her, paying a heavy price for his heroic actions in Operation Ouka nearly two years ago, the unconscious form of Yuuya Bridges could not give her a reply.

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“Dear Yuuya…”

A Muv Luv Alternative Total Eclipse fanfic (teaser) by Sasahara17

It's a girl reading letters to her comatose older-half brother while getting run over by the trauma train, repeatedly, while trying to come to grips with the fact she has unresolved 'issues' with him.

Like it, hate it, please let me know what you think. If the reception is good, I might consider turning it into a full length fic (won't be too long though).

Oops. It was never my intention that Valkyries completely replace TSFs in everything. In fact, VTFs had problems with fighting BETA becuase they run out of ammo quicker than a TSF (hence my air v armor comparison). Humanity can only win if everything works together.

I'll have to put more focus on the F-35 and the F-18 in the next JH to make up for this. Big Oops.

Oh yeah, just to clarify: The Shinden II that the Japs have is a TSF, not a Valkyrie. The IRG don't do Vallkyries.

Erm, don't forget to give feedback and comments on "Dear Yuuya..." in my post above. I will give presents (not)!

I would guess that A-01 Valkyries would return back with VF-25 'Messiah' and VF-27 'Lucifer'... or something along those lines

I would guess that A-01 Valkyries would return back with VF-25 'Messiah' and VF-27 'Lucifer'... or something along those lines

Nope! Nice guess, but one thing I decided upon is that interference from the Macross-verse would be limited to the five ‘visitors’ and what they brought with them. The only VF-25 the Muv Luv would will ever see is the one Hibiki was flying.

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It was quite good. It captures quite well what Yuuya's dad must have being going through, as well as what Yui would feel. I like it.

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It was quite good. I would love to read more of it.

Thanks! Okay, I’ll add ‘Dear Yuuya…’ to my to do list. It’s probably going to be really short though and a very character centric piece (Yui).

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- I like it. Needs a bit more fine-tuning, I think--more on usage of terms, etc.

Thanks! I’ll take that into consideration when the actual thing comes out (including the part you pointed out).

Yeah, well, I've decided to get with that Extraverse thing I was talking about.
Because, it's not like I'm jealous of "Dear Yuuya" or anything...

It'll probably be a tad bit OOC. Because, Extraverse.

Spoiler for So, did you think Extraverse was without drama?:

Takamura Yui was a girl in love.

It was, seemingly, yet another success in her seemingly perfect life. Born as a younger daughter to a prestigious Takamura family, Yui’s life was always a cut above others, no matter how humble she was. She never lacked for anything, and in turn, there was nothing for her parents to complain about. She didn’t complain –in fact, she enjoyed – the etiquette lessons her mother gave her, along with the knowledge of basic chores that any woman should know. From her father, she learned the tools of her family’s trade: to tinker with machines, to understand their structure on the most basic level, and to seek improvements in anything. There was nothing that couldn’t be improved, or changed. In school, she excelled at both academics and sports. Nature had blessed her with an outstanding body – soft, alabaster skin, silky, long dark hair, sparkling amethyst eyes, a supple and pronounced bust that most Japanese women would kill for, a shapely ass and great legs. Her parents had loved her, and she loved them. She had many friends, and the respect of her classmates. Her life was a fairy tale in all but name.

There was just one problem.
She was a girl in love.
And the man she loved was her half-brother.

Yui couldn’t tell when she fell in love with Yuuya. It certainly wasn’t when he arrived – when she was still young, and her vision of the world was still grounded in white-and-black. She had reviled him back then; as a man unfit to carry her father’s legacy, a shame on the family, a dirty, perpetually angry Yankee that bulldozed into her home…

She couldn’t stand his attitude, or his arguments with father, or how he would treat him, like filth. He never bothered to hide his contempt for the man. And that Yui, had, at the time, not understand, and could not forgive.

She was of course, mortified when he was somehow admitted into the senior year in the prestigious Hakuryou School, and became almost an instant sensation among female crowd. It was difficult to deal with him at home, much less at school

She was 14 back then. He was 18.

They were on skiing trip – along with their benefactors and close familial friends, the Ikarugas. It was a private affair , with little fanfare, and much of those silly, guilty little antics between her father, mother, and the head of Ikaruga family. His wife talked a lot with Yui, finding the girl very similar to her younger cousin, and strangely endearing. Yuuya had, thankfully, kept out of her way, instead opting to share whatever corruption he held with Tadakatsu-dono.

It was towards that final week that all the children had inevitably found themselves skiing on same slope, and inevitably, her and her bother got into a fight. She couldn’t remember what it was about, and she doubted Yuuya would either. The important part was that at some point they started chasing each other atop of the slope, getting further away from the known pathways. It was then that she tripped, and fell from a top of small hill onto a steep hillside, and slid into the woods. She could still recall her fear as the world danced before her eyes, and the pain when back of her head slammed into a tree; the pain when her body fell into the snow, and propelled by gravity, dashed over iced stones.
She awoke three days later, in Tokyo’s chief medical hospital.

It was the first time she had seen her mother expressing her emotion to such a degree, and it was the first day when her father had slapped her across the face, and called, to quote “Unbelievably moronic.”

After that, Ikaruga had visited her, and in his typical, shifty and charismatic fashion, explained that it was Yuuya who carried her to their cabin. It had taken him nearly a day and a half, because it just had to start snowing when she crashed. He also explained that Yuuya had done so despite breaking a leg when running after her.

A week later she was back home – the impressive family residence in Kyoto, where she would spend next two weeks. It was then that she finally gathered courage to confront her older half-brother.

When she did so, she had found him in one of the rooms overlooking the garden, on cold, silent night. He was praying then, muttering something quietly in English. It was strange – she never took Yuuya for the religious sort.

He talked to her first – he had explained that it was the anniversary of his mother’s death. She listened. It was one of the few times when she didn’t have a harsh, or smart-mouthed retort for him…and then, some kind of dam had simply burst. He told her how he was shunned as a kid back in the States, being raised in rural and conservative South; how his mother’s family scorned him for being a “freak”, and his mother as a whore. He had no-one to rely on, and no-one to call friend. All he had, was his mother, and the tiny, small hope that perhaps one day, people would accept him for what he was.

It was then that his mother was diagnosed with cancer.

She died in matter of years – painful years filled with untold suffering. Yuuya had almost dropped from highschool to try and work, and pay for her medication; and to visit her regularly.

It was silly of course. No part-time job would pay for years of chemotherapy. Even the few sympathetic townsfolk couldn’t offer any meaningful support. He was left alone, fully knowing that there was nothing that could save his mother’s life.

By the time her old colleague and Yuuya’s godfather, a famous engineer named Heineman, found them, Mira Bridges was gone too far.

Her death had shattered the Bridges family, which keenly felt that in her last days, Mira rued and cursed them, and they had done nothing to help her. His grandfather in particular, never recovered. William Bridges was many things, but he had, at least tried to be a good father. When he realized just how much suffering he had caused to his daughter, he broke and wept, and begged Yuuya to forgive him.

Yuuya did. Even he couldn’t tell why. Perhaps, his grandfather was simply the last person Yuuya intimately knew, regardless of how bad the terms of such relationship were. Perhaps it was Heineman’s counsel.

Yuuya had spent next few years with grandfather, who took it upon himself to bring Yuuya into his family, and teach him “things a young American gentlemen ough to know.” He had taught him hunting and survival, helped him study mathematics and biology. With Heineman’s help, Yuuya even got into an internship at Boening. A low key one, true, but one he had taken without competition at the age of 16.

And then his grandfather died. He was old, and the wounds that death of his sole child had left were too deep. Yuuya had no more direct relatives left. There was nothing, just an old, but well-kept house in Alabama, and a couple of mementos, his mother’s old notes from work and his grandfather’s Colt revolver.

Then his father – Yui’s father, found him through Heineman.

By the time Yuuya finished, Yui had long forgotten about what she had wanted to say. There was only Yuuya, saying “I don’t want to lose anyone. I don’t want my father to just leave again. I don’t want you to leave me, either.” There was no talk after that. Just the soft crying of a young girl, and a young man.

In the next few years, the relationship between them improved. Yuuya had taken the pains to be more “heir-like” as he called it, Yui took pains to deal with Yuuya’s “ruffian character”. They made an odd duo – him, a savvy, older charming young man, her a strict, no-nonsense young girl with a golden heart. Their father was proud; though his and Yuuya’s relationship was never fully repaired, at least they could sit in the same room without arguments.

She begun to admire Yuuya’s tenacity; even when he had begun to change, he did so on his conditions, and did it in his way. He was also loyal to a fault - when he said that he would do something, he would. It didn’t matter how long something would take, or how much pain he would suffer - if Takamura Yuuya decided that he wanted to do something done, he get it done, even if he had to shoot God on his way there.

Over time, she begun to notice more – that her half-brother was a grown man, and an attractive one at that. He was tall – almost as tall as their father. He was muscular and well-built, with handsome face, a ruffle of light-brown hair, gleaming, metal-like eyes and a rouge-ish grin. With time, more and more girls begun to beg Yui to set them up with her “hunk of foreign bother.” Girls had also flocked to him in formal functions, like the time when the three daughters of Takatsukasa family besieged him during their father’s birthday party. Yui noticed that too.

She had found herself snooping around, judging the girls her brother met. There was always something wrong – Tarisa was uncouth and an ADHD basket case, Stella was too flirty, Sharon – Yui had hated Sharon with an irrational passion, never mind that the girl was the date of Yuuya’s best friend!

She begun to help her older brother more often too, sometimes even when she didn’t really have to. She cooked for him, and brought him meals when he would stay up writing his university papers. She’s spar with him in family dojo, even when she was supposed to attend to her own homework. She’d spend hours as a discussion board, bouncing back technical ideas with Yuuya on machines they’d want to build.

She loved it when he praised her – that sweet, smoldering feeling of embarrassment and guilty pleasure.

She wanted more – it was not enough that Yuuya was her brother, and that automatically made her closer than most other women would ever be to him. She wanted more.

It was sudden – one day, Kazusa had teased her in that familiar, sarcastic tone. “Sure Yui-chan, sure. I bet the only man who could touch you in that way would be you brother. Aaaaah, the little Miss Yui, the perfect wife for a perfect man~ It’s so unfair! Leave some of that lovely arse to us girl.”

The thought of being Yuuya’s wife… of being by his side, through good or ill, to support him in his endeavors…to have him support her in turn…to share love, passion and dreams…it was just so natural when it came to her, that she didn’t even notice it.

She begun to go a little further – she would take her father’s recipes (the same that Mira would cook for Yuuya), and cook them by herself whenever they were alone. She’d fall asleep in his lap, and pin him for hours. She would feel panic and gut-wrenching anger whenever Tarisa and Sharon would drag him out on Friday nights to some drunken revelry…he didn’t need that. He had her. She could drink with him if he wanted.

The dreams started around that point.

They were simple at first. Little guilty pleasures, like a hug there, or kisses on top of her head…she would dream of her and Yuuya playing across the fields, stargazing into the night, without care in the world. As she reached height of puberty, the dreams became…vivid. She would no longer just hug Yuuya. She would kiss him –on lips, passionately, like those girls in those sappy Shojou managas that Shimako loved to read.

She wouldn’t call him aniki or Onii-sama. Just Yuuya. She’d beg for his touch…she would feel her body heat up at his breath…

It was exhilarating. It was at that point – when she’d wake up sweaty, breathless and satisfied – that she realized that she was in love.

And that her love wasn’t normal.

What sister lusted after her brother? What sister would rather prefer to have been born to someone else, so she could take the place next to her brother?

The first few months after that realization had been hard. She’d cry every night, aware that legitimately, her love was impossible. Yuuya had been close to her –he’d tease her now and then, give her an oddly close gesture of affection that would send her heart aflutter – and that would be it.

Did he even see her as a woman? A woman that would love him, that would care for him, that would bear him his child?

It was the entire white picket fence package as Sharon would put it. It wouldn’t be strange if Yui had those feelings for someone else – anyone really, but not for her brother.

Gods! What would her mother think when she’d find out? What would their father do?

So she’d cry every night, quietly into her pillow, crying herself to sleep. And in that sleep, in her dreams, she was free. She was just Yui, and he was Yuuya. There were no barriers between them; they lived as a family. They were happy. Sometimes, they would have a pair of children, sometimes just one, and sometimes they were lord and lady of the mansion, surrounded by servants awed of their love. It was silly, and it was corny and it was wrong, but Yui loved every moment of it.

And on those rare days that she’s stay alone in home, with no father, mother, or Yuuya, she’d sneak into his room and…did things she would never before have accepted, or believed that she was capable of. But it felt so good, so relaxing and relieving, that she couldn’t stop.

For a year, she fell into a comfortable routine, thinking about how to work out her feelings, while playing the role of close- suspiciously close, but only that- sister to a handsome brother, a dutiful daughter and an ambitious young woman; while on her rare free days, she’d drown in her fantasies of love.

That was before she came. The woman with the silver hair.

It's actually going to be a tri-shot. The first part is about Yui trying to deal with- and failing to deal with - her love. The next in Yui confronting Cryska. It also contains me, Sasahar and Goose. As girls. It'll be fun.
The last part is the Christmas party and (immoral) happy ending.

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Let the world fear us all.
It's just means to an end.
Our salvation lies in the Father's sins.

Nope! Nice guess, but one thing I decided upon is that interference from the Macross-verse would be limited to the five ‘visitors’ and what they brought with them. The only VF-25 the Muv Luv would will ever see is the one Hibiki was flying.

Thanks! Okay, I’ll add ‘Dear Yuuya…’ to my to do list. It’s probably going to be really short though and a very character centric piece (Yui).

Thanks! I’ll take that into consideration when the actual thing comes out (including the part you pointed out).

Oh God, someone should introduce THIS Yui to Azaka Kokutou, beucase I started reading the former in the latter's voice about halfway through it and couldn't stop laughing after that. I mean it was mean any everything, but damn. It fits so well.

The entrance of the 'thieving cat character', stage right at the very end didn't help matters. Damn I'm mean.

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It also contains me, Sasahar and Goose. As girls. It'll be fun. The last part is the Christmas party and (immoral) happy ending.

Nope! Nice guess, but one thing I decided upon is that interference from the Macross-verse would be limited to the five ‘visitors’ and what they brought with them. The only VF-25 the Muv Luv would will ever see is the one Hibiki was flying.

There goes my dream of seeing the 207th taking a last stand against Ikaruga's forces until the A-01's rescues them in their new VTFs from the Macross universe.

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Yeah, well, I've decided to get with that Extraverse thing I was talking about.
Because, it's not like I'm jealous of "Dear Yuuya" or anything...

I should say that the only reason I even know who Azaka Kokutou is, is because I read TV Tropes.

I had no idea it would fit.
It was intended to be sort of sarcastic at times, but that's because it's actually Yui's mind narrating itself, pointing out the things that Yui herself would rather keep hidden.

Yeah, Yui is a naughty, naughty girl, but then again, it's because she feels so strongly about Yuuya.

As for me, Goose and Sasa, we come up next chapter when the narration describes the kind of women Yuuya knows. Yui is convinced that my char is positively insane, and bi, since I have Goose and Ikaruga and Inia wrapped around my fingers. Also, we hang out together and cause colossal damage. There's a reason Latorova will never hold any more barbecues.

On serious note, the Cryska bit actually took me a bit to write (it's halfway done now), because it's less about hate, and the sheer despair that Yui feels when she meets her.

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Yeah, I read that fic. As far as Takeru-centric, it feels really good. I hope the writer can keep it up.

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Let the world fear us all.
It's just means to an end.
Our salvation lies in the Father's sins.